An alternative is to treat every position as distinct, then look at all the permutations (factorial) and divide by 2 for each branch that is symmetrical: 4! / 2^3 = 3 6! / 2^4 = 45
Interesting math problem. Kind of reminded me of the first problem in Good Will Hunting! Would be cool if you could establish an upper and lower bound on the result of that calculation solely based on quantitative properties of *any* tree
Really refreshing to see this interview.. I sort of deviated from the love for math during my undergraduate degree, but now I find it really interesting.
Interesting. I had to work a lot on thinking aloud after I received feedback from a teaching observation. I wasn’t even conscious of it. We tend to lose it or take it for granted as we get older. It’s definitely a skill you can get back if you are made conscious of it but to do it so concisely and maturely after being asked on the spot like that is impressive. No fluff at all by him. The ability to simplify complex information and validate reasoning has to be one of the best ways to measure intelligence and critical thinking. Also, props to the interviewer for telling him what they are looking for. Cool 👍🏻
Heard on the Street is a good source of maths brain teasers. I would also recommend working through some UKMT past senior maths challenge papers. Questions are less rote and more reflective of what you will be asked in a university interview for maths.
Yes, UKMT senior papers have a lot of good problem solving questions that can get you to pick up many skills which can be used in interviews like this.
It could be argued that A vs B is different to B vs A if the location of the match depends on who is listed first. Not that I’d have got anywhere near the answer in that timeframe
The strange thing was when I heard the second part "say A and B are seeded... how many way could I construct a tournament in this format" leads to a completely different answer to the one discussed where I believe would be stated as 'say two are seeded ... how many ways could I construct...' It might be a case of me having poor sound quality on my end, but a good point to interviewees would be that if you have not heard the question clearly/coherently, then it's wise just to clarify.
Agreed. I guess mathematicians don't actually watch sport so they don't understand how seeding really works.... It's probably a deliberate ploy so that anyone who picks up on it can be instantly rejected for not being sufficiently geeky?
Precisely. I understood that to mean A and B are seeded and so cannot be removed from the left side, they are fixed competitors. When he started saying you can have multiple pairs on the left side I was confused because I thought A and B were seeded haha.
I’m in 12th grade and pretty good at math and although I could figure this problem out really easily I would have a really hard time explaining the mental processes that brought me to my answer
Classic advice to eat properly beforehand. My school back in the late ‘90s before my A levels always advised to take a Mars bar or something for a sugar boost!
As the interview went on Will deftly moved through the interview. The teacher expanded on Wills processes. And the teachers shirt displayed the various stages of shock and toward the end of the interview finally passed away. After which it sagged off the teachers broken right shoulder like a corpse dragged from a body of water. Tragic to see the hidden shirt abuse and neglect in these hollowed halls of learning.
I was thinking that this looks a bit like permutations / combination problem, but that it doesn't really fit the usual question type (ex. how many possible words with 5 letters) and that therefore you have to take a manual/tree approach like the candidate did.
It’s a trivial problem for school kids who did some introductory combinatorics. Could be a very difficult problem for many politicians, since they are so undereducated nowadays.
Is that the sort of difficulty of the questions? I've heard people say their interviews were so hard that they wanted to cry,, but this question seems easy relative to that.
Careful. If you demolish a question they give you then the next will be much harder. They are trying to test how you respond when you get stuck so they *will* make sure you are stuck at some point.
My son just had two interviews at Oxford, one for math and one for computer science because he applied for joint degree. I do not know either because of stress or the difficulty of questions, he has to pause before answering interview questions, while when he viewed the mock interviews, he knew the answers immediately. But honestly for 25 minutes, he had to solve two or three problems, with a few subset questions within one question. I can easily understand students make mistakes during interviews. Because they have roughly 5 seconds to think before answering the questions, otherwise, there is no way to solve so many questions.
Did my cambridge math interview today. Annoyingly, one of the questions I couldn't answer, I had an answer to, yet due to nerves failed to convey my proof in words. Probably made it look like I was incapable to doing a very simple question and massively lowered my chances of getting. Hopefully things went alright overall though.
Whatever the outcome of the interview, you are still going to end up at a top university. Someone who can get to the interview stage for Cambridge is clearly academically gifted, with the potential to be successful in most walks of life. Don't let that one question that you feel didn't go so well get you down. I'm sure you've learned a lot from the experience.
@@skilliano being academically gifted does not give you, alone, the potential to be successful in most walks of life. I can think of many other attributes that are more important.
@@environm3ntalist549 i agree with you. Note, i didn't say that academic ability is the only attribute that determines success. It's probably important to note that success can mean different things to different people. But my personal experience tells me that Oxbridge candidates (not just graduates) often achieve their goals in life e.g. the career they want, setting up businesses that thrive. It doesn't always work out for a multitude of reasons. But the point i was making to the writer of the original comment was that he has plenty of talent, and one response to an interview question that he feels wasn't the best won't define his future. It wasn't my purpose to discuss other attributes that contribute towards achieving success.
To get to that stage is unreal. I had to use a calculator to do 9x4 earlier on because I couldn’t be arsed working it out 🤣- and I’m doing law. I’m sure you’ll be fine boss 👊🏻
Since interviews are online this year, and have set schedules (e.g. 30 mins), will there be puzzle sets, articles, problems given to us beforehand? (this is for PPE) Also, side question, but how do I address the professors in the interview? Thank you for your videos.
Yes, it is quite likely that you will be given reading before an interview. I can't guarantee it, because it will depend on what each set of interviewers wants to do. The interviewers will give you their names at the start of the interview, and you can address them by their names. You don't need to use titles. For the most part, it won't even be necessary to use their names, as you can just respond to their questions.
I agree, this was shockingly simple. I am not extremely intelligent by any means; however, this is frankly a pitiful examination in my opinion. I left Uni precisely because they had such nit wits frolicking about (including the professors), claiming to be (I kid you not) "better than lay people"...yes that was used verbatim. Yet, some failed to do simple y = mx+ b (granted it was in the form of p =gb + c or something of the sort) in the third-year classes!!!! Name of the University? University of Washington of all places. Ranked supposedly 50th in the world or so when I went there...it has likely dropped in quality considerably.
I really wish I wasn't so thick! The maths questions made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. I'm in awe of intelligent people. I am good(ish) at the guitar when I'm drunk though. Good video. 👍
You think You can Teach me Something about Computing or Electronics or even Physics? As for Maths, I have a Good grasp on GCSE and A'Level Mathematics. I've never had a Need for Much of this Beckham Studies.
Am I missing something? When watching the video. I feel like the answer to the second question is not accounting for how the brackets are arranged. In the video they seam to be saying the correct solution is 45 tournaments. With my understanding of the problem this should be divided by three = 15 unique tournaments. In my mind the proposed solution in the video fails to account for the rearranging of the three brackets. Here is an example of that I am talking about: 1. (a,b) 2. (c,d) 3. (e,f) == 1. (c,d) 2. (a,b) 3. (e,f) == 1. (e,f) 2. (a,b) 3. (c,d). Am I missing something?
I really hope that prospective students are given the choice of having an interview in person, where they can use pencil and paper, or a blackboard. Despite a M.Sc. in computer science and 20 years as a top flight software developer I really do think using things like Miro are cumbersome and inefficient.
@@hmccarrell9524 I had three interviews at my first choice college. Bearing in mind that this is a daunting experience, I felt deliberately insulted by one of my interviewers. Another one asked me a question on applied maths, but admitted it was unfair of him to ask that question. Only the third interview was relevant to the maths degree I had applied for. I was very much put off Oxford University after this interview experience, and quite relieved when the decline letter came through a couple of weeks later. I did achieve a first class honours, and a PhD elsewhere. Just unfortunately had a terrible experience with Oxford.
@@andyrobertshaw9120 thanks Andy, congrats on pursuing your passion for math. Where did you end up studying? I’m presuming their interview, if there was one, was more on spot. Are you professing now?
Have you considered that many students will not have nor be able to afford a drawing tablet of some kind and this may significantly restrict their ability to communicate their working through a miro?
I was wondering - the feedback was that he was quick; if you have a slower than average processing speed due to a learning disability will that be taken into account on your performance?
If I had a leg missing and tried out for the basketball team, would they take into account that I’m disabled and accept me to the basketball team and put me in the starting five? What has the world come to. If you have only one leg, you cannot be in the basketball team. If you have a learning disability, you cannot be a mathematician. This is a very difficult discipline that requires a sharp mind, just as basketball requires certain athletic attributes and abilities. “Pick an easier discipline” would have been the honest and more useful advice but if the professor gives the more useful advice, unfortunately, he may be ostracized and may even be fired. So he gives the politically correct answer.
To be honest I am not applying for maths but I am interested of University of Oxford it sounds so good the course I want to study is music and I will be applying next year in 2022 I hope I get into Oxford I like it so much
@@YakobtoshiNakamoto That is the point, the question wasn't clear here, and there are two possible scenarios, one where teams play home and away and the other where they play on neutral venues. Annoys me that questions are never clarified this. Oh well, I hope he passed anyway but the tutor proding him to see if he double counted doesn't bode well.
Questions will be set by the interviewers, and will be consistent across all interviewees so that you can be compared. I'm afraid your preference doesn't enter into it!
GCSES are only a small part of your whole application. They mainly care about your A Levels. You definitely do not need 7s 8s or 9s to get into Oxbridge.
Well if the questions were at this level of difficulty then I would be getting a full ride scholarship. I solved both of these problems almost as soon as I saw the pictures of them. If I were around people this excited about learning all the time I feel like I would have some original ideas.
Can you explain it to me? 🤣 I feel so thick. Why is A the only fixed point in the first one? Surely B could also play anyone, and C, etc. Wouldn't that add more options?
Interviewee was not all that good. At this level I would have expected the interviewee to try to generate a general formula based on the number of competitors n.
What's the point in being really good at maths when we have computers and smart phones life's too short to be pedantic. There's only about 0.4% jobs out there that require you to know the higher level mathematics.
Well, you could say the same about any degree. What's the point in being good at learning a modern language when we have Google translate? What's the point in studying history, when we can use Wikipedia? The point is not the knowledge but the skills you develop. You could develop those skills in a professional setting, or you could develop them to an even higher and more adaptable level while studying something at university that you truly love. That's the point of academic degrees.
Telling people to think out loud is very bad interviewing method. What if someone is shy or introverted. And I disagree that you young people are experienced enough to interview. I have met post docs in their 30s. who through talking to them, clearly lacked experience and knowledge. By all means have young people in interviews, but also include older more experienced people.
What nonsense. Where are you from in the UK has nothing to do with our application or admissions processes. The maths academic in this video is from the north of England.
@@martinburke362 Sure. But you're implying that we somehow like it that way. That we are deliberately selecting students from the south. But that's complete nonsense. We in fact would love to have greater regional diversity at the University, but people from outside of London and the South-east are vastly less likely to apply. And it's because of blinkered attitudes such as yours that this perpetuates. Don't project on to Oxford what is not there.
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 almost as many people from Surrey 857 of them got into oxbridge than did students from the North East and Wales 1157,over half the students at Oxford and Cambridge come from 5 counties in the South East of England, and you have the nerve to accuse me of being blinkered!! It's you who needs to take the blinkers off!!
@@martinburke362 You're not taking my point. Yes, it's correct that the SE and London dominate in Oxford, but THAT IS NOT WHAT WE WANT! You're implication from the first testy comment onwards is that we don't like northern students, which is a) wrong, and b) a blinkered view based on misplaced prejudice about the university and its staff. We are investing millions per year to ensure Oxford better represents the UK. Yes, there loads more we need to do, I'd be the first to admit. What are you doing to help? Spreading these sorts of perceptions that northern students are unwanted is WRONG, and makes everything worse.
Surprise, surprise, surprise: 1. neither the faculty nor the candidate student look like a nerd 2. both the faculty and the student look cute and handsome I know i am shallow. Just wanna give a different perspective.
1. The second guy looks like a nerd, a handsome nerd. 2. A more handsome confident mathematician is probably more likely to conduct the interviewing process since he is less embarrassed at presenting the school. 3. This does not mean you will be rejected for being ugly, it's very hard to be rejected for that unless you are extremely unlikeable, which is unlikely, but possible. 4. It's best to not think this way all the time, it makes you bitter and resentful.
The fact is that conducting an interview [ and subsequently rating the candidates ] is a process requiring considerable skill on the part of the interviewer. Throughout a 30 year career in engineering I have been on both sides of the table on different occasions. [ In those days it WAS a table not a computer link ]. Most of those interviews were so inexpertly designed, that all they could and did establish was whether or not the two sides liked each other - which at the end of the day, maybe that was all that was necessary anyway in most contexts SO - nice to see that some rational thought is being applied to the problem. Of all the University disciplines, one assumes that mathematics is the one in which it is easiest to apply and test logical methods. How are candidates in PPE handled ? one wonders. I picked up one remark by the math don " you have to love doing mathematics ". That's a tricky one, if for no other reason that the field of mathematics has grown so large. As a self-styled amateur mathematician, there are parts of mathematics which I frankly find tedious as well as impenetrable, and I cannot bring myself to give them the time of day. " Love " then is as our putative future monarch once pointed out in an indirect reply on a famous occasion is mysterious, and obviously highly personal and selective.
Being interviewed by a guy who genuinely looks like he rocked out of last nights piss up about 2 minutes earlier 😂
I have absolutely no interest in Math or studying it at any level but I still watched this all the way through lmao
Same bro
@@carlyburbridge4988
Yeah ok 🤥
same this just got recommended to me
I watched this to see how dumb i am
An alternative is to treat every position as distinct, then look at all the permutations (factorial) and divide by 2 for each branch that is symmetrical:
4! / 2^3 = 3
6! / 2^4 = 45
Interesting math problem. Kind of reminded me of the first problem in Good Will Hunting! Would be cool if you could establish an upper and lower bound on the result of that calculation solely based on quantitative properties of *any* tree
Really refreshing to see this interview.. I sort of deviated from the love for math during my undergraduate degree, but now I find it really interesting.
may i ask where you studied?
Interesting. I had to work a lot on thinking aloud after I received feedback from a teaching observation. I wasn’t even conscious of it. We tend to lose it or take it for granted as we get older. It’s definitely a skill you can get back if you are made conscious of it but to do it so concisely and maturely after being asked on the spot like that is impressive. No fluff at all by him. The ability to simplify complex information and validate reasoning has to be one of the best ways to measure intelligence and critical thinking. Also, props to the interviewer for telling him what they are looking for. Cool 👍🏻
What I love about this, is that it very much widen access where not a select group of student has an understanding of the process.
Thanks for your comment! That's exactly what we're aiming for.
Very interesting. I wish I had more patience with institutions and structured courses.
Heard on the Street is a good source of maths brain teasers.
I would also recommend working through some UKMT past senior maths challenge papers.
Questions are less rote and more reflective of what you will be asked in a university interview for maths.
Yes, UKMT senior papers have a lot of good problem solving questions that can get you to pick up many skills which can be used in interviews like this.
It could be argued that A vs B is different to B vs A if the location of the match depends on who is listed first. Not that I’d have got anywhere near the answer in that timeframe
Think out loud, great advice!
The strange thing was when I heard the second part "say A and B are seeded... how many way could I construct a tournament in this format" leads to a completely different answer to the one discussed where I believe would be stated as 'say two are seeded ... how many ways could I construct...'
It might be a case of me having poor sound quality on my end, but a good point to interviewees would be that if you have not heard the question clearly/coherently, then it's wise just to clarify.
Agreed. I guess mathematicians don't actually watch sport so they don't understand how seeding really works....
It's probably a deliberate ploy so that anyone who picks up on it can be instantly rejected for not being sufficiently geeky?
Precisely. I understood that to mean A and B are seeded and so cannot be removed from the left side, they are fixed competitors. When he started saying you can have multiple pairs on the left side I was confused because I thought A and B were seeded haha.
I didn't choose to study maths at uni but I do miss the challenge of a good, well formed question
As a school lad I hated maths and was crap at it. Now ( in my late 50`s ) I love maths and am crap at it.
Ha! Me too!
I’m in 12th grade and pretty good at math and although I could figure this problem out really easily I would have a really hard time explaining the mental processes that brought me to my answer
Classic advice to eat properly beforehand. My school back in the late ‘90s before my A levels always advised to take a Mars bar or something for a sugar boost!
Absolutely! Me too. And, I was always terrible at taking the advice, hence why I'm so militant about it now!
As the interview went on Will deftly moved through the interview.
The teacher expanded on Wills processes.
And the teachers shirt displayed the various stages of shock and toward the end of the interview finally passed away. After which it sagged off the teachers broken right shoulder like a corpse dragged from a body of water. Tragic to see the hidden shirt abuse and neglect in these hollowed halls of learning.
God..what a brilliant interview...i want to do maths now :)))
Upload Physics interview please.
It reminds me about the media interview I undertook in 2018.
Can you please also make for a physics interview?
I was thinking that this looks a bit like permutations / combination problem, but that it doesn't really fit the usual question type (ex. how many possible words with 5 letters) and that therefore you have to take a manual/tree approach like the candidate did.
It’s a trivial problem for school kids who did some introductory combinatorics. Could be a very difficult problem for many politicians, since they are so undereducated nowadays.
I study politics at Exeter I don’t know why I’m watching this
Great video, could you do one for computer science?
These questions were rather easy, but to be honest you do get nervous during interview and forget easy staff, like me forgetting integration
Look at other similar vids they’re way harder.
George the beast
Easy asf and I’m shit at mathematics
The interview is the most credible manner upon which Stats students are evaluated abroad nowadays in 2020.
Is that the sort of difficulty of the questions? I've heard people say their interviews were so hard that they wanted to cry,, but this question seems easy relative to that.
Difference is you don’t have a the pressure of getting into your dream uni, you have the comfort of watching this at home
Careful. If you demolish a question they give you then the next will be much harder. They are trying to test how you respond when you get stuck so they *will* make sure you are stuck at some point.
My son just had two interviews at Oxford, one for math and one for computer science because he applied for joint degree. I do not know either because of stress or the difficulty of questions, he has to pause before answering interview questions, while when he viewed the mock interviews, he knew the answers immediately. But honestly for 25 minutes, he had to solve two or three problems, with a few subset questions within one question. I can easily understand students make mistakes during interviews. Because they have roughly 5 seconds to think before answering the questions, otherwise, there is no way to solve so many questions.
My Career uses Math and Science. I watched to see the end of this. I'm going onto my third Red Seal for CNC Programmer.
Did my cambridge math interview today. Annoyingly, one of the questions I couldn't answer, I had an answer to, yet due to nerves failed to convey my proof in words. Probably made it look like I was incapable to doing a very simple question and massively lowered my chances of getting. Hopefully things went alright overall though.
Whatever the outcome of the interview, you are still going to end up at a top university. Someone who can get to the interview stage for Cambridge is clearly academically gifted, with the potential to be successful in most walks of life. Don't let that one question that you feel didn't go so well get you down. I'm sure you've learned a lot from the experience.
@@skilliano being academically gifted does not give you, alone, the potential to be successful in most walks of life. I can think of many other attributes that are more important.
@@environm3ntalist549 i agree with you. Note, i didn't say that academic ability is the only attribute that determines success. It's probably important to note that success can mean different things to different people. But my personal experience tells me that Oxbridge candidates (not just graduates) often achieve their goals in life e.g. the career they want, setting up businesses that thrive. It doesn't always work out for a multitude of reasons. But the point i was making to the writer of the original comment was that he has plenty of talent, and one response to an interview question that he feels wasn't the best won't define his future. It wasn't my purpose to discuss other attributes that contribute towards achieving success.
how did it go? hope you're faring well :)
To get to that stage is unreal. I had to use a calculator to do 9x4 earlier on because I couldn’t be arsed working it out 🤣- and I’m doing law. I’m sure you’ll be fine boss 👊🏻
I aced this shyt. Oxford here I come!! Do u offer low income assistance with a budget flex pay plan with the option to skip a few payments?
Could use combination
6C2 multiplied by 4C4(3) for the second part
Since interviews are online this year, and have set schedules (e.g. 30 mins), will there be puzzle sets, articles, problems given to us beforehand? (this is for PPE)
Also, side question, but how do I address the professors in the interview? Thank you for your videos.
Yes, it is quite likely that you will be given reading before an interview. I can't guarantee it, because it will depend on what each set of interviewers wants to do. The interviewers will give you their names at the start of the interview, and you can address them by their names. You don't need to use titles. For the most part, it won't even be necessary to use their names, as you can just respond to their questions.
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 will that be during the interviews time slot or before?
Very similar to programming interviews in terms of tips on how to do well..
I have never studied Maths beyond GCSE but I found that problem pretty simple to solve.
I agree, this was shockingly simple. I am not extremely intelligent by any means; however, this is frankly a pitiful examination in my opinion. I left Uni precisely because they had such nit wits frolicking about (including the professors), claiming to be (I kid you not) "better than lay people"...yes that was used verbatim. Yet, some failed to do simple y = mx+ b (granted it was in the form of p =gb + c or something of the sort) in the third-year classes!!!! Name of the University? University of Washington of all places. Ranked supposedly 50th in the world or so when I went there...it has likely dropped in quality considerably.
@@danielmarien2850 T50 is much different than T20
@@charlesludwig8672 I did look up the difference. I am unimpressed either way.
As for your name...I hope that is simply a joke account.
Very interesting
I really wish I wasn't so thick!
The maths questions made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
I'm in awe of intelligent people.
I am good(ish) at the guitar when I'm drunk though.
Good video. 👍
Thanks! I'm terrible at maths, and I can't play the guitar :(
Sometimes I question UA-cam recommendations
You think You can Teach me Something about Computing or Electronics or even Physics? As for Maths, I have a Good grasp on GCSE and A'Level Mathematics. I've never had a Need for Much of this Beckham Studies.
Cheer up mate maths is fun
Am I missing something? When watching the video. I feel like the answer to the second question is not accounting for how the brackets are arranged. In the video they seam to be saying the correct solution is 45 tournaments. With my understanding of the problem this should be divided by three = 15 unique tournaments. In my mind the proposed solution in the video fails to account for the rearranging of the three brackets. Here is an example of that I am talking about: 1. (a,b) 2. (c,d) 3. (e,f) == 1. (c,d) 2. (a,b) 3. (e,f) == 1. (e,f) 2. (a,b) 3. (c,d). Am I missing something?
I am so confused 😂😂😂 thank god I'm not planning to study maths at Oxford (or anywhere else)
Thanks so much for this - would you be able to do this for geography?
Planning on it! Watch this space!
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 Thank you!!!
great interview
Solving maths and listening to math interview is different thing
u(x,t)=1/2[g(x-x*t)+ g(x-ct)+intergrat[x+ct,x-ct)h(s), D lambert equation to wave equation
I really hope that prospective students are given the choice of having an interview in person, where they can use pencil and paper, or a blackboard. Despite a M.Sc. in computer science and 20 years as a top flight software developer I really do think using things like Miro are cumbersome and inefficient.
Thanks for this! I’ve applied to study maths at Jesus!
Good luck!
he's teaching maths now? This guy's a god!
fuck knows why i watched this full vid 🤦♂️😂
I think you can feel maths as well as see maths
I'm surprised by how easy this is. I tried pure maths at school and hated it.
I watch this to get to sleep.
This was very different from my Oxford interview 30 years ago!
How was it different?
@@hmccarrell9524 I had three interviews at my first choice college. Bearing in mind that this is a daunting experience, I felt deliberately insulted by one of my interviewers. Another one asked me a question on applied maths, but admitted it was unfair of him to ask that question. Only the third interview was relevant to the maths degree I had applied for.
I was very much put off Oxford University after this interview experience, and quite relieved when the decline letter came through a couple of weeks later.
I did achieve a first class honours, and a PhD elsewhere. Just unfortunately had a terrible experience with Oxford.
@@andyrobertshaw9120 thanks Andy, congrats on pursuing your passion for math. Where did you end up studying? I’m presuming their interview, if there was one, was more on spot. Are you professing now?
Have you considered that many students will not have nor be able to afford a drawing tablet of some kind and this may significantly restrict their ability to communicate their working through a miro?
Of course we have. Support with technology for interviews is provided. No one will be thought less of for not having a tablet of their own.
So can it be represented by C(6,2) x C(3,1)?
I forgot the chain rule in my interview because I was nervous, somehow got in lol
I was wondering - the feedback was that he was quick; if you have a slower than average processing speed due to a learning disability will that be taken into account on your performance?
Yes, provided that you have stated on your UCAS form that you have a learning disability, this will be taken into consideration.
Jesus College Oxford Thank you for your response.
If I had a leg missing and tried out for the basketball team, would they take into account that I’m disabled and accept me to the basketball team and put me in the starting five?
What has the world come to. If you have only one leg, you cannot be in the basketball team. If you have a learning disability, you cannot be a mathematician. This is a very difficult discipline that requires a sharp mind, just as basketball requires certain athletic attributes and abilities. “Pick an easier discipline” would have been the honest and more useful advice but if the professor gives the more useful advice, unfortunately, he may be ostracized and may even be fired. So he gives the politically correct answer.
@@bobbrown8155 I am sharper and work harder than you. Pick another person to project your insecurities on.
@@bobbrown8155 you at Oxford? Which college?
Looks like I'm not going to Oxford 🤣
Fact about a job or college interview with British people: you never know when British interviewer is lying or telling you the truth 😊
Will you be doing this for computer science?
I’d like to, yes. I just need to recruit an academic to do so!
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 Thank you for engaging with your audience.
I passed algebra 1A the second time around… what’s up??
my brain don't think like dat
I’m ready when you are.
thanks for this!! would you able to do this for philosophy?
Yes, I'll look into that. Thanks!
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 Thank you!!
There's an Oxford mock interview on UA-cam for Philosophy, politics and economics if that helps
Is he wearing a blouse?
To be honest I am not applying for maths but I am interested of University of Oxford it sounds so good the course I want to study is music and I will be applying next year in 2022 I hope I get into Oxford I like it so much
Good luck!
1st question, didn't take in to question whether the competitors where playing at home or away :) See A v C is not the same as C v A
Where’s the requirement that states there’s home and away games? If there’s no home/away games, A vs C is exactly the same as C vs A.
@@YakobtoshiNakamoto That is the point, the question wasn't clear here, and there are two possible scenarios, one where teams play home and away and the other where they play on neutral venues. Annoys me that questions are never clarified this. Oh well, I hope he passed anyway but the tutor proding him to see if he double counted doesn't bode well.
It's a moot point. A to B is the exact same in this situation as B is to A.
"Understated"? No, Will made a genuine and understandable mistake in his combinatorics.
are the questions asked from topics of our preference or could be anything?
Questions will be set by the interviewers, and will be consistent across all interviewees so that you can be compared. I'm afraid your preference doesn't enter into it!
Will oxford care about very average gcses if they are contextual?
GCSES are only a small part of your whole application. They mainly care about your A Levels. You definitely do not need 7s 8s or 9s to get into Oxbridge.
Depends on what you mean by average. If they're all 5s/6s they probably will care
@@two697 yes i know that but what if they are contextual
@@Im-wp8pf even if it's contextual, I'd image 5s and 6s would be way too low
@@salicylicacid9945 what if i do IB? Do they prefer A levels?
So does it mean that you don’t ask any general question like why you chose this college or this school at the beginning ?
No. You're very very unlikely to be asked questions like that.
Who got this recommamded
I got into Oxford Uni Mathematics by being myself...
What MAT score did you get?
I wouldnt be happy at all that the interviewer is calling each seperate game a “tournament”, confusion from the get-go.
Would that be the whole interview?
There may be time for other puzzles in the same interview.
I went to Oxford university. Studied politics and am now head of the party planning committee for the Tory party. Messed up last year though.
I'm studying med in Sydney Australia, idk why I'm intrigued to watch this lmao
The funny fact is that the answer is 15 lol
Thanks for this! What's the name of this app, used in interviews?
It’s called Miro. All best to you!
miro.com
Good luck!
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 Thank you very much!
UM my name is UM I’m at college umm (yeah don’t do that)
The final authority about math on UA-cam is NancyPi.
They both look like Zuckerberg . Robotic face 🤖
Oxford University Ltd.
Could one be done on law or history & economics or medicine?
We've got some of those already: ua-cam.com/play/PLrP5or0tZE-TLqhHHSFdykxtEFosB8Uin.html
What on earth is a tournament
As in tennis...a competition.
Coming from Africa this Matter looks like a bad dream for people trying to appreciate education at the Graduate level.
Is that the same as society of Jesus?
Is Jesus good? The closest I got to Oxford was a rejection from Trinity.
Well if the questions were at this level of difficulty then I would be getting a full ride scholarship. I solved both of these problems almost as soon as I saw the pictures of them. If I were around people this excited about learning all the time I feel like I would have some original ideas.
Omg mate. You’re so clever. Good job!!
The real questions are harder
Can you explain it to me? 🤣 I feel so thick. Why is A the only fixed point in the first one? Surely B could also play anyone, and C, etc. Wouldn't that add more options?
Lg
Chemistry pleaseeeee
Working on it!
Interviewee was not all that good. At this level I would have expected the interviewee to try to generate a general formula based on the number of competitors n.
These guys don't sound that woke to me?
bro what.
What's the point in being really good at maths when we have computers and smart phones life's too short to be pedantic. There's only about 0.4% jobs out there that require you to know the higher level mathematics.
Well, you could say the same about any degree. What's the point in being good at learning a modern language when we have Google translate? What's the point in studying history, when we can use Wikipedia?
The point is not the knowledge but the skills you develop. You could develop those skills in a professional setting, or you could develop them to an even higher and more adaptable level while studying something at university that you truly love. That's the point of academic degrees.
So that the computers don't conquer us
Classic career academic, probably a genius but can’t iron a shirt.
boring how did this pop up
Telling people to think out loud is very bad interviewing method. What if someone is shy or introverted. And I disagree that you young people are experienced enough to interview. I have met post docs in their 30s. who through talking to them, clearly lacked experience and knowledge. By all means have young people in interviews, but also include older more experienced people.
Yeah but if you are posh and from London or the south east you will still get into Oxford before a northerner who is cleverer than you!!!
What nonsense. Where are you from in the UK has nothing to do with our application or admissions processes. The maths academic in this video is from the north of England.
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 and most of your students are from the South!!! DO the maths(if you will pardon the pun)
@@martinburke362 Sure. But you're implying that we somehow like it that way. That we are deliberately selecting students from the south. But that's complete nonsense. We in fact would love to have greater regional diversity at the University, but people from outside of London and the South-east are vastly less likely to apply. And it's because of blinkered attitudes such as yours that this perpetuates. Don't project on to Oxford what is not there.
@@JesusCollegeOxford1571 almost as many people from Surrey 857 of them got into oxbridge than did students from the North East and Wales 1157,over half the students at Oxford and Cambridge come from 5 counties in the South East of England, and you have the nerve to accuse me of being blinkered!! It's you who needs to take the blinkers off!!
@@martinburke362 You're not taking my point. Yes, it's correct that the SE and London dominate in Oxford, but THAT IS NOT WHAT WE WANT! You're implication from the first testy comment onwards is that we don't like northern students, which is a) wrong, and b) a blinkered view based on misplaced prejudice about the university and its staff.
We are investing millions per year to ensure Oxford better represents the UK. Yes, there loads more we need to do, I'd be the first to admit.
What are you doing to help? Spreading these sorts of perceptions that northern students are unwanted is WRONG, and makes everything worse.
Surprise, surprise, surprise:
1. neither the faculty nor the candidate student look like a nerd
2. both the faculty and the student look cute and handsome
I know i am shallow. Just wanna give a different perspective.
What does this even mean?
1. The second guy looks like a nerd, a handsome nerd.
2. A more handsome confident mathematician is probably more likely to conduct the interviewing process since he is less embarrassed at presenting the school.
3. This does not mean you will be rejected for being ugly, it's very hard to be rejected for that unless you are extremely unlikeable, which is unlikely, but possible.
4. It's best to not think this way all the time, it makes you bitter and resentful.
The fact is that conducting an interview [ and subsequently rating the candidates ] is a process requiring considerable skill on the part of the interviewer.
Throughout a 30 year career in engineering I have been on both sides of the table on different occasions. [ In those days it WAS a table not a computer link ]. Most of those interviews were so inexpertly designed, that all they could and did establish was whether or not the two sides liked each other - which at the end of the day, maybe that was all that was necessary anyway in most contexts
SO - nice to see that some rational thought is being applied to the problem. Of all the University disciplines, one assumes that mathematics is the one in which it is easiest to apply and test logical methods. How are candidates in PPE handled ? one wonders.
I picked up one remark by the math don " you have to love doing mathematics ". That's a tricky one, if for no other reason that the field of mathematics has grown so large. As a self-styled amateur mathematician, there are parts of mathematics which I frankly find tedious as well as impenetrable, and I cannot bring myself to give them the time of day. " Love " then is as our putative future monarch once pointed out in an indirect reply on a famous occasion is mysterious, and obviously highly personal and selective.
Harold you have used many big words in your post which will require the use of a dictionary for most ! Impressive :D !